Gestational Diabetes

How sooner after birth good numbers?

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jesslbenson wrote:

So I just gave birth to my perfectly healthy son about 6 hours ago! I was wondering did you ladies have normal numbers right away? I wasn't even thinking about being tested and scarfed down a turkey sandwich French toast with syrup and a cup of fruit that the lunch people brought me. My number was 146 :( which I know normally would have been much higher. I also hadn't eaten since Tuesday night at 6::0 and didn't give birth until thursday morning at 3:16 with no snacks or anything inbetween. Thanks!

My first two days were high. I had high fastings (didn't bring my insulin to the hospital) and then post meals were high too. I was really nervous and my OB said I might need to take the insulin for a few days. I took it that night, and my fasting was 85, my first 2hr was 66 and then my second for the day was 84. At that point I stopped the insulin and my fasting and all the next day's numbers were a good 20pts lower than they had been! I was NOT watching carbs. I was getting 80's drinking soda and eating cookies and lots of junk. I'm a carb junkie while my milk comes in. I'm not even checking anymore.

I asked about diet restriction requirements and blood sugar testing during and after L&D, and my OB also said all of it can go out the window when I get to the hospital when it's time to have a baby :/ She said I'll be checked for diabetes about 4 months after postpartum, but numbers won't be accurate until then to determine if my blood sugar is able to go back to normal like before... I thought it was a bit strange, but I guess the strict part is to make sure the baby does well during our pregnancy with GD..

My numbers were pretty high right after birth. I think the stress of labor, it took me 24 hours, gave me some of the highest numbers I had ever. After that, my numbers are still high. I think 146 doesn't sound that high to me considering what you ate. My numbers got slightly lower after that but remained higher than I would have liked. I took the glucose test again at eight weeks postpartum and past, but my numbers were still higher than a truly normal persons would have been. I've come to think that it's unrealistic to expect our numbers to be as perfect as they were when we were younger, or as they are for normal people. Hopefully they go down lower than during pregnancy, but the gestational diabetes does show that our bodies are somewhat weak in that area. Maybe what I just said sounds depressing, but actually what I'm trying to say is, that number sounds pretty good to me, especially considering that you just got off the stress of birth. I would take it as a good sign.

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